Match-box



(No Model.) 7

W. E. SIMONDS.

MATCH BOX.

Patented Oct; 25

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UNiTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM E. SIMONDS, OF HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT.

MATCH-BOX.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 248,617, dated October 25, 1881.

Application filed January 1'7, 1881. (No model.)

ure which is at once amatch-box and a receptacle for the ends of burned matches.

The improvement consists in areceptacle for the ends of burned matches, which I will call a stub-chamber, provided with salientand otherwise suitable access-orifices, and combined with amatch-receptacle having an imperforate bottom forming a removable cover for such stub-chamber.

The improvementfurtherconsists in the combination of a cup, forming the lower part of such stub-chamber, with a separate reversed cup bearing the access-orifices, and also, integral therewith, the match-receptacle, a construction which not only enables the two parts of the structure to be formed or cast in molds, butpermits the access-orifices of the stub-chain'- ber to have peculiar saliency of location.

The letter 1) denotes the stub-chamber, provided with one or more access-orifices, a, suitable in size for the introduction of burnedmatch ends.

The letter (t denotes the match-receptacle, borne like a cover on top the stub-chamber, and removable therefrom, so that the stubchamber may be emptied of its contents. The lower part of the stub-chamber is composed of the cup d, which supports the reversed cup 0, which latter bears, integral therewith, the match-receptacle.

It will be observed that the access-orifices of the stub-chamber are located in an outwardlyslanting surface, so that the burned-match ends can be conveniently dropped into the stubchamber instead of having to be unhandily pushed therein, as would be the case it these orifices were located in an inwardly-slanting surface,orinwhat amounts practicallyto the same thin g-an upright or vertical surface having an outward projection close over the same. It is this location of the access-orifices that is meant by the use of the word salient hereinbefore and in the following claims, a location opposed to re-enteringthat is, a location that is neither in an inwardly-slanting surface nor in an upright surface, having an outward projection close over it.

It will also beobserved that the bottom of the match-receptacle is imperforate. This is a necessity of the structure, for if it were perforate any match end dropped into the stubchamber not thoroughly extinguished might set fire to all the matches through one of the perforations.

It will be further observed that by forming the structure of two parts shaped as described I am not only enabled to form or cast both parts in molds, but also to give the access-orifices peculiar and desirable saliency of location.

I claim as my improvement- 1. In a match-box, the combination of the stub-chamber having salient access-orifices with the match-receptacle having an imperforate bottom and forming a removable cover therefor, substantially as described.

2. In a match-box, the combination of the cup which forms the lower part of the stubchamber with the separate reversed cup hearing the access-orifices and also the match-receptacle, substantially as described.

WM. EDGAR SIMONDS. 

